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Very slowly migrating to this platform... Writer. Spoonie. Follower of science.

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ChandraDKM @chandradkm.bsky.social · Mar 31

Reminder:

When a herd of reindeer is threatened, the herd runs fast in a "cyclone" to confuse predators, keeping the most vulnerable in the center. The whole herd survives.

Trying to save "most" of the herd lets predators pick off the herd, most vulnerable first, until there's no herd left.

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A simple 2 by 3 table of text and images. The left-side column says "THIS" over a an image of a large herd of reindeer forming a protective reindeer cyclone. The right-side column says "NOT This" over an image of a handful of reindeer running across the open snow in a loose column about 4 reindeer wide. There is a small reindeer trailing far behind the stragglers of the main group.

The description under the left column reads:
The Reindeer Cyclone
What actual "herd immunity" looks like:
The fittest save the whole herd.

The description under the right column reads:
Salvaging "most" of the herd...
until there's no herd left.

Image credits:
Left-side, reindeer cyclone image by Lev Fedoseyev
Right-side image by Vladimir Melnikov

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 1d

sets the bar incredibly high for trans names everywhere

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 1d

FINDS THEM AND KILLS THEM

"Finds Them and Kills Them (Osh-Tisch) looked like a man, but wore women's clothing and had the heart of a woman.... she was brave and good."
― Pretty Shield

Her strength as a warrior is what earned her the name Osh-Tisch, which translates to “finds them and kills them."

Who is Osh-Tisch?
Osh-Tisch was a Apsáalooke Badé, a role within the Crow Nation that defied traditional gender norms, embodying both masculine and feminine qualities. Before colonization, Badé were deeply respected for their unique spiritual gifts, artistry, and contributions to community life.
As a Badé, Osh-Tisch carried responsibilities tied to culture, ceremony, and social balance. Their life shows how many of our nations embraced gender diversity long before Western colonial powers imposed rigid binaries.

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 1d

I see people sharing this, maybe as an act of shared mourning, an attempt to stir action, or confirmation that the world sucks. The death of reef ecosystems pushed me into a panic about climate change in 2013 & led to me starting the Climate Anxiety Counseling booth in 2014. So, a few things (1/5)

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 1d

… today, a group of 160 scientists from 23 countries is announcing that the planet has already reached its first major tipping point: the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs.

Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’

A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. It's not too late to save what remains.

grist.org

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 1d

#MythBustingMonday
“Vaccines contain dangerous and toxic ingredients.”
This one never dies, so let’s tackle it properly. Yes, vaccines contain multiple components but context, chemistry, and dose matter. Vaccine ingredients have been studied for decades, across trials and billions of doses. A 🧵

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Jay Marose @jaymarose.bsky.social · 2d

I have my message ready.

A welcome mat that says
COME BACK with
A JUDICIAL WARRANT SIGNED BY A JUDGE!

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ChandraDKM @chandradkm.bsky.social · 2d

Also look up the judge, because ICE has already presented AI generated warrants signed by fake judges.

Kraig Peck @kraigpeck.bsky.social · 2d

If ICE or Border Patrol comes to your home or business or place of work or school: Do not admit them unless the warrant is for your specific address and is signed by a judge--not by anyone except a judge.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 2d

#Inktober2025 Day 12, prompt: “shredded”

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 2d

🔥fresh new pots🔥
www.roseschmits.com
international shipping available

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 2d

This reminds me there is a bit of Arthuriana where Owain appears to have a magic raven army en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dre...

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 2d

only 10 more days to get a vampurr! grab yours before he vanishes into the night 🦇

www.makeship.com/products/vam...

vampurr the plushie with his cape enjoying some outdoor time

same picture but he’s a little farther away from the camera

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 2d

book covers featuring the muppets: thread

Elmo on the cover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 2d

what idiot called it sora and not slop motion animation

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

I won't go on & on about it. But what Dr. Demento put out into the world was special. It connected who knows how many people to music they didn't know they needed. to weird music. to big laffs, which we need. his final show will cost you three bucks, but it's priceless. 3/3 drdemento.com/online.html

Dr. Demento - Streaming

drdemento.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

so, this weekend the great Dr. Demento did his final show. I could write a lot about the importance of his show to me & my friends when we were 12 and 13. there's more to it than "he played funny stuff" and "his show is where @alyankovic.bsky.social got his start." 1/3

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Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 2d

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 2d

Grandpa: I sent your grandma 57 handwritten love letters from the western front and she finally agreed to marry me when I returned from the war

Me: the computer told me to say "I had a good time last night" to this girl but it didn't work for some reason

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 4d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 3d

A great URL explainer from Julia Evans's saturday comics, drawn from her http zine! wizardzines.com/zines/http/

A hand-written explainer on "how URLs work," with an explanation of various parts of the links' anatomy - scheme, domain, port, path, query, etc.

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 3d

Periodic reminder that you can put a little basket in your bathroom closet with condoms and fentanyl test strips and other harm reduction stuff, and you can tell your teenagers you don't track it and it can be for them or any of their friends and you can regularly replace it if it's used or expires

A photo of a small container with condoms and fentanyl test strips.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 3d

O dear Diana

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 3d

bodies will just fuck with you, man. that’s what they do. don’t tell anybody else what they’re experiencing. You don’t know.

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